(unicode) string.

remove the 'crash-protection'.

before we can pass it to re.sub.

test by default.

These are passed as byte strings (unicode strings are passed as wide
character strings).

ctypes.create_unicode_buffer also accepts bytes now.

Revert some tests in test_unicode: Since string literals are unicode
now, conversion takes place when byte literals are passed as unicode
parameters.

PyStringObject before).

for the tp_str slot. Drop __unicode__ method.

weird things if someone has a "\dev" directory on the current drive.

api functions. Code from fileobject.c, patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.

This patch also changes:

The return value of the native ftruncate function is checked for '!=
0' instead of '< 0' as before.

fileio_seekable returns bool now instead of an int.

Patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.

in pyconfig.h).  Remove the workaround for the broken (in Python 2.3)
PyUnicode_(From|As)WideChar functions.

contain several string literals using non-ASCII characters.  Because
of the pain of displaying those characters, it's better to use \xXX
escapes for these instead of typing the accented characters.

Apologies if I missed something; it didn't look like there was anything
that depended on this file being encoded in Latin-1 or containing non-ASCII
characters.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk

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  r56274 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-11 08:10:46 -0700 (Wed, 11 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix #1751965, typo in isinstance.
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to 'file', which no longer exists).
Fix inspired by Christian Heimes, SF# 1752195.

Fix by Christian Heimes, SF# 1751958, who writes:

  I tested the fixes with the Zope3 zope.app.locales packages.
  The mo files are loaded and parsed w/o any problem.
  The translation with gettext.gettext is working as expected.

Fix by Alexandre Vassalotti, SF# 1752173.

Found by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, SF# 1752317.
(Also removed a redundant check for !errors.)

Patch by Alexandre Vassalotti, SF# 1752229.

Thanks to Christian Heimes for finding these tests.